Michelle, in terms of volume levels, test is best - try recording little clips, and listen to them thereafter, and you can always amplify them afterwards if necessary, and while don't really do more than play around with audacity myself, I find the best way to handle selecting pieces is to listen, and then to use [ and ] to start and end selections, during playback, and then along with jaws scripts, you can easily enough shift selection start and end, or else use the selection toolbar to sort that out, and then, think just hitting delete key will remove the selected section, but, you can also find that via menu's, and if am not mistaken, it will at least remove the selection, shifting the rest of the track to thus remove the selection, and not just silence it. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA "Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..." ----- Original Message ----- From: Michelle Creedy To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 6:25 AM Subject: [audacity4blind] Podcast Creation Hello List So, I've decided to try and do a podcast using Audasity. A couple of questions I have right off the bat are: How will I know if the microphone levels are ok not seeing the bars? One piece I'm having a great deal of difficulty with is editing the recording. I've read the help files and so on but editing is still something I'm really struggling with. It's finding the right place to stop and start and figuring out how to get pieces out I don't want that is an issue. I want to start really simple because the last time I played with this program, I got overwhelmed because I tried too hard to do too much. I'm so excited to do some podcasting though so any help would be very much appreciated. Sometimes, I really feel like the novice on this list! Michelle